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Title	Geometry
Reference	MS Add.9597/11
Covering Dates	1635–1750

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Geometry

Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/11 contains:

Geometrical Problems.
ff.23 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometriae Practicae.
ff.27 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

De Problematis Planii; De Locis Geometricis.
ff.16 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

De tabulis chordarum sinuum tangentium et secantium construendis.
ff.64 [small quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometria descripta. Manuscript copy of the treatise by Kinckhuysen (published Haarlem, 1663.).
ff.106 [quarto]; paper.

c 1663-c 1750

Of the Increments of Triangles. One draft and one fair copy of the same treatise.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.29 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Conic Areas and Angles Elliptic & Hyperbolic.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.7 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Hyperbolic Asymptotes.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.9 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Euclid's Elements. English translation of Euclid Book I in tiny fair hand, and page of rough Latin notes.
ff.3 [mixed]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Of Lines of the Second Kind.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.26 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Miscellanies from Sturmy.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.12 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Questions in Geometry.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

De sectionibus conicis.
ff.22 [octavo]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Trigonometry, David Gregory.
ff.20 [octavo]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Angular Sections.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Geometria Elementa - Euclid (Number 1).
ff.23 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometrical Problems (Number 11).
ff.16 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Of the Proportional Parallelogram (Number 16).
ff.20 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometria Elementa (Number 2).
ff.17 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometry Macrobii Saturnal: Lib:2 cap:4.
ff.5 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Practical Geometry (Number 5).
ff.22 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Of Solids that May Serve for Dice. Autograph treatise by William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.16 [octavo]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

An extract of a letter from William Jones Esq; F.R.S to Martin Folkes Esq; President of the Royal Society; containing a commodious disposition of equations for exhibiting the relations of goniometrical lines. A printed copy from Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 44 (1746), pp. 560-566, and several manuscript drafts/copies.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.17 [quarto]; paper.

c 1746

Of the Length of the Elliptic Curve.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.5 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

The Stereographic Projection of a Sphere.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.35 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Oblique Angled Sphericall Triangles.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Geometrical Notes. Miscellaneous loose geometrical papers in paper folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.44 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Notes on Newton.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Geometrical Exercise Book. Probably in the hand of one of Jones's pupils. Includes perspective drawings.
Creator: Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield.
ff.36 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Geometrical Notes.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.11 [folio]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Parabola Triangles.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Conic Sections by Means of the Projections or Shadows of Curved Lines. Rough draft and fair copy of the same treatise.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.34 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Rough Notes on the Tangents of Arcs.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.33 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Lines of the Second Kind. An autograph copy of the paper by William Jones: two bifolia with loose diagrams.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.15 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Dary's Rules for Guaging.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.10 [quarto]; paper.

1650-c 1683

Animadversiones Geometricae. Copy by John Collins of work by Henry Briggs.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.20 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1683

To Find the Quantity of Liquer in a Spheroidal not Full, whose Axe is Perpendicular to the Horizon. Together with other sets of instructions.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Of Mr Strode's Conic Sections. Copy by John Collins of a work by Thomas Strode.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.40 [mixed]; paper.

c 1650-c 1683

Red Notebook. Contains miscellaneous notes, including 'Definitions of the first Book of Apollonius' Conics.' Possibly in the hand of Halley.
ff.34 [octavo]; paper.

c 1690-c 1750

Extracts from Mr Warner's Papers. Includes 'Ad Architecturam nauticam Problema' with solutions, in Latin and English.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.19 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1683

Animadversiones Geometricae. Copy by John Collins of work by Henry Briggs.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.25 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1683

Spherical Trigonometry. The hand is not that of John Collins, although it is similar.
ff.198 [folio]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Miscellaneous Geometrical Notes. Various hands.
ff.106 [mixed]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Oughtred's Geometrical Tracts.
ff.34 [folio and quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Sphericorum triangulorum calculus. Set hand in red and black ink.
ff.52 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Notes on Various Geometrical Texts.
ff.134 [folio]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometrical Notes. Unknown hand.
ff.8 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Of Oblique-angled Sphaerical Triangles. Unknown hand.
ff.3 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Elementi decimi Euclidis. Unknown hand.
ff.49 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Barrow's Pieces. Includes autograph material by Barrow, and copies of works by both Barrow and Gregory in the hand of Collins.
Creator: Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677, mathematician.
ff.30 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1700

Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum. Unknown hand.
ff.17 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometrical Diagrams.
ff.10 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Newton's First Specimen of the Principles.
ff.17 [folio]; paper.

c 1670-c 1750

Schemata Triangulorum Sphaericorum. Unknown hand.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

An Addition to the Newe Booke of Guaging, and other papers. Main treatise in unknown hand; other papers in hand of William Jones.
ff.37 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Oughtred Upon Midorgius' Conics.
ff.76 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Of Angular Sections, Oughtred.
ff.8 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Of Trigonometry, Oughtred.
ff.25 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Oughtred on Levelling.
ff.23 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Curve Lines: Tables and Diagrams.
ff.41 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Loose Geometrical Papers of William Jones. Add. 9597/11/61-66 are collated together in a single folder. Add 9597/11/61 is all the loose notes from that folder, which are on miscellaneous geometrical subjects.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.64 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of the Cycloid Cissoid. Add. 9597/11/61-66 are collated together in a single folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.16 [octavo]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

On Paraboloids. Add. 9597/11/61-66 are collated together in a single folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.14 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Solids, Conical etc. Add. 9597/11/61-66 are collated together in a single folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.28 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Problems in Geometry. Add. 9597/11/61-66 are collated together in a single folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.22 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Geometrical Problems. Add. 9597/11/61-66 are collated together in a single folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.23 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Mathematical Papers in a Marbled Cover. Miscellaneous geometrical notes by William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.84 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Surfaces on Solids.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.43 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Hyperbolic Asymptotes.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.32 [mostly octavo]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Practical Rules for the Mensuration of Surfaces. Two sets of rules, one in the hand of Jone, the other in an unknown hand.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.27 [octavo]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Lectures Read by William Jones. Unknown hand.
ff.65 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710-c 1750

The Elements of Geometry. Two (partial) autograph copies of a treatise by William Jones, and some rough notes. Loose folios in hard, vellum-covered covers.
Creator: Jones, William (1675-1749) mathematician.
ff.119 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

The Elements of Geometry. Treatise, teaching materials and miscellaneous notes by William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.119 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Gonometrical Properties.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.39 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Lines of the Second Kind.
ff.20 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Of Quadratures. Add. 9797/11/76-79 are collated together in a marbled folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.53 [octavo]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Mensuration. Add. 9797/11/76-79 are collated together in a marbled folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.18 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of the Length of Curve Lines. Add. 9797/11/76-79 are collated together in a marbled folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.24 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Of Fluents. Add. 9797/11/76-79 are collated together in a marbled folder.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.15 [mixed]; paper.

c 1710-c 1749

Trigonometry.
ff.24 [folio]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Mensuration of Heights, Distances, Surfaces and Solids.
ff.33 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

A Short Treaty of Geometry. Copy of a work by H. Hopkey.
ff.31 [long quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Trigonometry.
ff.9 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Practical Geometry.
ff.11 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Geometry. Same hand as Add.9597/11/83-84.
ff.20 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Mathematical Papers of Sir Charles Scarborough.
Creator: Scarburgh, Sir Charles, Knight, 1615-1694, physician and natural philosopher.
ff.37 [quarto]; paper.

c 1635-c 1694

Geometry. Unknown hand.
ff.53 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750

On Mr Cotes's Logometria, Pars I.
ff.16 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

On Mr Cotes's Logometria, Pars II.
ff.23 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1750

Praxis Mensoria in Charta. Unknown hand.
ff.39 [octavo]; paper.

c 1650-c 1750